Johan Oskarsson
@skruk.bsky.social
Techie scum incubated in Sweden. Currently in SF.
San Francisco is doing Maslow’s hierarchy of needs but upside down
Self driving drive by? www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
2 juveniles arrested after San Francisco police find loaded gun in robotaxi
Two juveniles were arrested after San Francisco police said they recovered a loaded AR-style gun from an autonomous vehicle in the city’s Richmond District.
sfchronicle.com
The great thing about coding with AI is that I can create so many more unfinished projects in the same amount of time
Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of the Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator. [defrag98.com]
Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator
A free, browser-based simulator of the classic Microsoft Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter. Pick a drive, cue the HDD sounds, and relive the nostalgia of 1998.
defrag98.com
Trying to get IMAX tickets for the Odyssey is the real odyssey
Shoutout to the guy that put an AirTag on his water bottle
“My ai model escaped the sandbox” is the new “my website went down due to high demand”
This stuff is pretty amazing for productivity. In particular debugging over many systems at once and writing a fix in one go. sierra.ai/blog/pinecon...
Pinecone: Harnessing the wisdom of the workforce
As frontier models become more capable, companies are increasingly asking themselves the same question: What's our moat? We believe a large part of the answer lies in context.
sierra.ai
Show me the office coffee maker and I’ll tell you what kind of company you work for
There's a term for it! I do this a lot for elections en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion...
Emotional hedge - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I can recommend hedging against reality. If there is something you absolutely don't want to see in the world, bet on it happening on a prediction market. When it inevitably happens anyway you've at least got some money to drown your sorrows with.
Bringing my two Jerry cans to the gas station to do some gas price day trading
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
There’s a Waymo infinite loop happening on this narrow street. They are facing each other and one backs up, the other follows then they reverse and do it all over again
One last thing before we go. Today, after 2+ (or 10+??) years of work, we’re launching XOXO Explore, a complete archive of all eight years of the festival. xoxofest.com
XOXO
XOXO was an experimental festival for independent artists and creators from the internet.
xoxofest.com
Using Claude to RE a PCB from a high resolution image. Turns out you can't just shove a 1GB tiff into Claude without some problems. So I made a mini MCP that can "computer enhance region" by first getting an overview and then request sub regions of that image. github.com/johanoskarss...
Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service. “…the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a ‘reorganization.’ An execution.” [hatchmag.com]
Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An executio
hatchmag.com
There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!
My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign
There are literally cobwebs growing on the steering wheel in this Waymo
A quadcopter created by students at Aalborg University in Denmark can fly in the air and swim underwater. Designed and built over two semesters, this 3D-printed hybrid drone uses variable-pitch propellers that automatically adjust blade angles.